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George Birbilis edited this page Oct 5, 2022 · 30 revisions

Welcome to the READCOM: Reading Communities App wiki!

The READ-COM project is about improving the Reading habits at home and at school, so that all the children could have the same opportunities in the future.

Its Reading Communities app is about reading, interacting with, editing / remixing, and authoring shareable Stories.

Can read about the Concepts used and watch a walk-through video of the Application (showing pre-release version 0.0.18): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vXp5jUf8cU

Installation

The READ-COM app is available for Windows, MacOS-X, Android and iOS operating systems, in the following formats:

  • Windows executable (.exe)
  • Windows Store app
  • MacOS-X installer (.pkg)
  • Android app on Google Play Store
  • Android app for sideloading (.apk)
  • iOS app on Apple TestFlight

See https://github.com/Zoomicon/READCOM_App/wiki/Installation

  • Also available: latest internal debug build for Windows 32-bit)
  • More distribution channels in proress or considered for the future

Testing

The default document shown when app first launches (or with New button) contains some links for stories to try, including the Tortoise and the Hare Aesop fable.

Alternatively:

  • can try downloading manually and opening that story for testing (right click the link and select to Save As a .readcom file - to use that story's URL in URLActions of StoryItems right click the URL and select Copy, then right-click and Paste in the URLAction editbox at the popup dialog of the ActiveStoryItem in the app).
  • can download the whole Gallery in a .ZIP file (extract its Gallery subfolder somewhere on your PC) and load that sample story from the "Stories/Aesop Fables" folder, per the instructions found at https://github.com/Zoomicon/READCOM_Gallery/. The Gallery also contains useful media assets of permissive license at "Assets" subfolder to add to your stories

Screenshots

READ-COM Application v0.6.0 showing The Tortoise and the Hare story in non-Edit mode

READ-COM Application v0.6.0 showing The Tortoise and the Hare story in Edit mode

Older screenshots:

READ-COM Application v0.5.0 showing The Tortoise and the Hare story in Edit mode

READ-COM Application v0.1.0 showing The Tortoise and the Hare story in Edit mode

READ-COM Application showing The Tortoise and the Hare story

READ-COM Application in Edit mode

READ-COM Application in Edit mode showing Options popup for ActiveStoryItem